Hey SpiceHeads, wanted to give you a heads up that we're doing a two-day Community Release as we upgrade our infrastructure.

Tonight, starting at approximately 8:00 PM Central Time (CT), we'll be bringing the site down for roughly one (1) hour. This will only affect the Community and not other services and we hope to have it up in no time at all. This is mainly paving the way for tomorrow's update...

On Tuesday, at roughly 10:00 AM Central Time (CT), we'll be upgrading a single server to a more current version of Ruby on Rails and watching it for a bit. When all goes well, we'll roll out deploying that to all servers﻿. Want to know what all is going on? Luckily, I have nominated Nate H (Spiceworks) to do a developer blog about this Soon™.

In the meanwhile, once the updates start going live (we'll put up a notice in the community letting you know) and should you see anything wonky (technical term), post it here and let us know.

UPDATE [Mar 23, 2016 @ 10:59 AM CT] - Hey all, as you may have noticed... we haven't had Part 2 yet. That is because we ran into a few small items that the team would like to address before it goes live. We have run a node specifically for the office to test on but we haven't released anything external yet. When will we? At this time, all I can say is it could be today, it could be tomorrow, or it could be next week... or rather Soon™. When we know more, I'll update you all here!

UPDATE [Mar 24, 2016 @ 3:30 PM CDT] - Starting around 3:30 PM CDT, we're slowly rolling out the update to one node (server) and directing a portion of traffic at it. If you are noticing something not working as intended, please post here and let us know!﻿

UPDATE [Mar 28, 2016 @ 4:41 PM﻿ CDT] - Hey SpiceHeads, the moment you are waiting for is here! We are deploying this update to the entire community starting right about... NOW! This will not require any downtime but we will be rolling it out to each node individually (one after the other) and this could take up to an hour to finish.

Hey all, as you may have noticed... we haven't had Part 2 yet. That is because we ran into a few small items that the team would like to address before it goes live. We have run a node specifically for the office to test on but we haven't released anything external yet. When will we? At this time, all I can say is it could be today, it could be tomorrow, or it could be next week... or rather Soon™. When we know more, I'll update you all here!

Today's update... starting around 3:30 PM CDT, we're slowly rolling out the update to one node (server) and directing a portion of traffic at it. If you are noticing something not working as intended, please post here and let us know!

No problems here either. Thanks for the heads up (and all the good one-liners and funny Hunger Games references). I like the "technical term" (wonky) and "the hot brown steaming stuff hits the quickly revolving wind making machine". :D﻿

Dunno if this is related to the update or not (because I have zero knowledge of Ruby on Rails and if that might cause some link misdirections if one server was on another version), but there's this issue